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Is 175 square miles as big as a Hockey rink?

It's about 300,000 times as big as a Hockey rink
The size of a Hockey rink is about 0.000585650851 square miles.
(per NHL specification)
Per National Hockey League Official Rules, a hockey rink should measure 60.96 m long by 25.908 m wide with a corner arc radius of 8.5344 m, for a total area of about 0.000585650851 square miles. Ice hockey is believed to have developed from field hockey after players began holding games on ice rinks, which had been traditionally used for the sport of curling.
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